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McKenzie: Ruckersville museum to honor Vietnam vets this weekend
The bricks will be the newest feature at the foundation’s fourth annual Memorial Day open house beginning Saturday and going through Monday.
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“It is not illegal to watch something on television,” said one of Tarek Mehanna’s prosecutors. “It is illegal, however, to watch something in order to cultivate your desire, your ideology.” In short, Mehanna is going to prison for what he thought — not what he did.
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How to make an apology: A lesson from Aristotle to Mitt Romney
We all need to fess up on occasion. It’s important to do it well. The great architects of classical rhetoric are wincing: Mitt got it all backward.
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20 contrarian thoughts
The nature of news tends to be bad, if not a little worse, so please consider 20 trends that may run a bit counter to the norm of breaking bad news.
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McKenzie: When a 'queen bee' turns 90
So what is it that makes Pauline Walton Corbin, who celebrated the end of her ninth decade on May 17, such a big deal?
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McKenzie: Calling on the community for players of taps
“The veterans have served our country and they deserve to be honored with the best we can give them,” Ray Caddell said.
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Arizona, immigration and he Supreme Court
As a result of growing gridlock, Congress has failed in three major areas that affect the U.S. economy: immigration reform, national energy policy and transportation funding. Immigration reform is the most politically sensitive in this election year.
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STEM in action
Sixty-three teams, 114 matches, three days, one convention center. Thousands of teenagers running on coffee, gadgets, spontaneous mass dances and high-intensity robot games.
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Leaving Afghanistan by staying
Obama forgot to provide any reason not to withdraw from Afghanistan now, given majority U.S. desire to end the war.
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A lesson before dining ...
Listening to their lack of culinary skills and stress-filled lives, I began to take stock of the lessons I learned growing up.
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McKenzie: Make Destination ImagiNation one of your stops
The middle-schoolers are trying raise nigh onto $18,000 for a world championship kind of competition in Tennessee.
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McKenzie: Resilience award winners have much to teach others
The awards honor Virginia businesses thriving in areas with high unemployment and high poverty.
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Oh, the things you can think
It’s a time for milestones in our household: Our oldest child is graduating from college next week with an impressive two degrees and two minors, and our youngest is graduating from high school with an equally impressive array of academic and extracurricular accomplishments.
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Jefferson, religious freedom and Belarus
Last month, admirers of Thomas Jefferson laid a wreath at the Founding Father’s Washington memorial to mark his 269th birthday. Two months prior, riot police raided a history club at the home of a Protestant pastor in Minsk, Belarus. What could link these two events?
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Know how to decipher award letters
You are living the dream, having been accepted at a number of colleges. The financial aid award letters arrive, and your dream turns into a nightmare as you try to decode their contents.
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McKenzie: Better World Betty rallies local businesses
“We did it. We got more than 100 businesses involved."
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McKenzie: Supporting Lark for the Arc
This will be the fourth year that Mr. White has gone birding for bucks in the Lark for the Arc spring fundraiser.
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Government seeks to silence those who would expose wrongdoing
The pre-trial hearings for alleged Wikileaks whistleblower U.S. Army PFC Bradley Manning hold some lessons for us all. If soldiers or other government employees expose government malfeasance on the Internet or in interviews with journalists, should they be charged with “aiding and abetting the enemy”?
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Are we there yet?
When all is said and done, transportation is about procurement. You either pay for it or you don’t. And if you don’t pay for it with real money, you pay for the consequences which, in term of lost economic opportunity and social decline, can be painfully expensive later, and self destructive
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'Blade Runner': What it means to be human in the cybernetic state
In the three decades since it first debuted on the big screen, viewers discovering the film on cable TV and DVD have come to appreciate it as not only a cult film par excellence but an emotionally challenging, thematically complex work whose ideas and subtexts are just as startling as its now famous production designs.
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McKenzie: Careless or angry gun use always a bad idea
There’s been a lot of shooting in the Richmond area lately.
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McKenzie: Dunk a police chief for a good cause
There’s a little bit for everyone at the 2012 Battle of the Badges charity drive and flag football contest May 6 at Monticello High School.
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McKenzie: Design House 2012 -- if you lived here, you'd have great ideas by now
I have my own interior design motifs and am more than willing to share, but my services were not needed to repurpose space in Design House 2012.
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McKenzie: Dueling tax rallies set for Monday
As a special treat, enjoy a two-day reprieve on your tax deadline!
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State lacks clear rules for officials in schools
If a teacher invited the governor of Virginia or a U.S. senator to address a high school government class, how many hoops would the teacher have to jump through?
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